Protecting Prisoners: The Standards of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Context

Protecting Prisoners examines the most detailed and far-reaching set of custodial standards yet devised—those of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)—-and relates them to those of other European and United Nations bodies. The book also examines the reaction of selected Council of Europe member states—-Belgium, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the United Kingdom—-to the application of those standards in CPT reports.